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IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA AT BENGALURU
RAJENDRA BADAMIKAR
Firoz Hatiwale, S/o. Mainuddin Hathiwale – Appellant
Versus
State, Through Sulepeth Police Station, Through Addl. SPP, High Court Of Karnataka – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
RAJENDRA BADAMIKAR, J.
The appellant/accused has filed this appeal under Section 374(2) of Cr.P.C. challenging the judgment of conviction and order of sentence passed by the learned II Additional Sessions Judge, Kalaburagi in Special Case (POCSO) No.18/2015 dated 22.09.2018.
2. For the sake of convenience, the parties herein are referred with the original ranks occupied by them before the Trial Court.
3. Brief factual matrix leading to the case are as under:
That on 04.04.2015 around 9.30 a.m. the victim aged about 10 to 11 years was proceeding to get a coconut. It is alleged that the accused enticed the victim under the guise of giving chocolates and later on took her on his shoulder to a deserted and dilapidated teachers’ quarters, put her on the ground, abused her in vulgar language as 
threatened her, held her mouth, bite her chin, fell on her and tried to remove her under garments. When the child cried, the complainant i.e., the father of the victim and CW.11 who were in search of the child after hearing the cry rushed to the spot and on seeing them, the accused fled from the spot. Then the victim narrated the incident to her father and she was taken to the police statio
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